Need to be able to put account on Hold at a reduced cost WITHOUT loosing plan.

I Travel for work and am out of the Country, usually overseas, for a month or more at a time for roughly half the year. Some of my other colleagues with other carriers (Canada, USA, Europe) are able to put their account on HOLD while they are away for extended periods of time. These carriers either reduce their plan to $0 or a nominal fee $10-15 for a specified duration. And when they re-enable their account, they have the SAME plan they had when they left.
Koodo needs to implement the same thing. I'm paying $60+tax for services I don't even touch while I'm away but need my current plan options while I'm home.
I would be happy paying $10-$15/mth while I'm away to keep background services like voicemail and call forwarding active if I could return to my previous plan upon my return. Obviously, this service could be limited to a certain number of consecutive days and total days/months per year.
Thanks.

Seasonal Hold is available for $15/month (max 6 months), but you mentioned keeping your plan, which is not the case here as it will be considered a plan change if you opt for it. Koodo is the only carrier that does it this way and you bring up a good idea of modifying it so it doesn't affect your plan. Something to consider.

Other than keeping your number what is the point of seasonal hold? I guess you don't have to pay off your tab but at $15/month maybe just pay off the tab and hope for a gift card promo when you want to return?

Really Moonmack, personally I see no use at all the way it is now, except to keep your Tab flowing... But for people who brought their own device and are "Tab free", it would be much cheaper to port out the number to for example Speakout ($25 for a whole year) or VOIP (free, but not possible for every number) and then come back to Koodo a few months later with a new account and port the number back in.

Keeping my Plan is concern #1 for me! I need my 6GB plan when I'm home.
Number is important as well... and it would just be easier to call Koodo or go to self serve and pay a few bucks per month than to deal with porting back and forth and picking new plans all the time.

Let's be honest here. If there was a better way of doing it, Koodo would of figured it out by now(I reference the fixed data amount addons not being compatable with the data saver tier structuring issue).

And really, all seasonal hold is, is a discounted rate to keep the account active while not paying full price for your normal rate plan.

I can appreciate wanting another way for it to happen, constantly asking for it without providing examples isn't really going to get anyone anywhere.

For a simple but crude option: Same as they do now with the Seasonal plan but they would note the plan and rates at the time of the switch. Seasonal plan could easily be adjusted to include voicemail and/or call forwarding.
Like Chad said, that's for Koodo to figure out.

Could you keep the same plan and fee but cut services and provide a rebate. So if I pay $50 a month for my plan there would be no change for a seasonal hold but I would add data and voice turned off for a -$35 fee. So $50-$35 is the $15 seasonal fee but you don't tell the computer the plan has changed.

I think this idea is a crude hack but is it likely to work? It would require an add-on that has a negative rate and effectively prevents the service from working.

Yes you can... I've done it. It took a lot of time on the phone with various tiers of managers, but anything is possible. Either way, the people at Koodo I'm sure would figure out a more streamlined way to make it happen if there was enough demand for it.

I think you hit the nail in the face there Matt. I just think they should change their model a bit or at least start keeping new plans a little more in line with the old plans. They are essentially blocking me from migrating because they don't have a 'new' 6GB plan, thereby blocking me from taking advantage of their current seasonal plan.

Completely agree with Mattjs, wow did I just say that haha ;-)
If this idea is implemented then it should only be available for ppl without a negative tab balance as it would confuse the 24 month rule and ppl would take advantage of it.

Switching to a Seasonal Hold plan is considered a plan change. You have to select from a fresh plan as available at the time you switch from the Seasonal Hold plan to one of the plans available in market at the time of the switch, upon your return.